Category Archives: CNN – US

What is it with people and golf? A photo taken at the Battleground Golf Course in Deer Park, Texas, shows golfers on the driving range calmly swinging away against a backdrop of black smoke from a petrochemical facility fire nearby. That fire at Intercontinental Terminals Company was extinguished early Wednesday — a day after the…… MORE

An enslaved African man named Renty and his daughter Delia were stripped and forced to pose for images commissioned by a Swiss-born Harvard professor who espoused a theory that Africans and African-Americans were inferior to whites. Nearly 170 years later, Renty and Delia “remain enslaved” by the Ivy League university, which is being accused of…… MORE

Robert Kraft will not accept a plea deal offered by Florida prosecutors in the case against the New England Patriots owner and other men accused of soliciting prostitution at a Jupiter, Florida, day spa, a source familiar with the case told CNN on Wednesday. Prosecutors have offered to drop misdemeanor charges against Kraft and 24…… MORE

Against the odds, a young Nigerian immigrant proved that hard work pays off. Tanitoluwa (Tani) Adewumi, a third grader at P.S. 116 in New York, has won the New York State Scholastic Primary Championship in his age bracket. That’s already an impressive feat in itself, but 8-year-old Tani only learned to play chess about a…… MORE

Antwon Rose II, the 17-year-old who an East Pittsburgh policeman fatally shot in the back as he fled a traffic stop, was no common thug and is not on trial, his mother wrote in a letter to prosecutors. “He was a rose that grew from concrete,” Michelle Kenney said of her youngest child. “Despite darkness…… MORE

The “Fantastic Adventures” YouTube channel has racked up more than 250 million views with its adorable cast of seven adopted children, silly topics and charmingly low-fi visual effects. Behind the scenes, though, the children told a different story. A welfare check last week found the home was a den of abuse in which their mother…… MORE

Farmers in parts of Nebraska and Iowa had precious little time to move themselves from the floodwaters that rushed over their lands last week, so many left their livestock and last year’s harvest behind. Now as they watch the new lakes that overtook their property slowly recede, some have a painfully long time to reflect:…… MORE

A fire that burned over four days at a petrochemical plant in suburban Houston was finally extinguished Wednesday. “As of 3 a.m. today the firefighting crews on the scene of the ITC Tank Farm Fire are reporting that all tank fires have been extinguished,” Intercontinental Terminals Company said in a news release. “Crews continue to…… MORE

Snip, snip, snip. A 12-inch ponytail dropped to the floor, and the crowd went wild. The buzzing of hair shears is not what you expect to hear at a middle school assembly. But anything can happen at this Michigan middle school in the name of paying it forward. On Monday, in front of the entire…… MORE

While the Trump administration rolled back environmental protections, Hawaii has doubled down on them. The Aloha State has passed ambitious laws to curb environmental damage, including banning certain sunscreens that can harm coral reefs and committing to the Paris climate accord’s goals. Now Hawaiian lawmakers are trying to get rid of single-use plastics in eateries…… MORE